A new zone based algorithm for detection of license plate from Indian vehicle

It has been observed that there is no fixed recognition system to identify and recognize a license plate. As the texture and writing pattern are not same hence, the plate designs are differ from one country to another. License plate recognition system for Vehicle Identification (VI) is a very popular and challenging work. With a high population country like India, identification of the vehicle owner and controlling the traffic on road is a big issue. Nowadays, the traffic management system is widely used to recognize the vehicle owner and to store the data (number of the vehicle) in digital database for future use. In this paper, a zone based license plate identification approach has been proposed with an adaptive template matching system to recognize the identified numbers. Captured images are divided into several zones on the basis of the light effect on them and then identification of the actual position of the number plate from other textual effect takes place. The effect of edge detection and segment on each numbers and letter separately, has also been discussed for proper recognition. The proposed method effective performance is shown through experimental results and graph.